Martin Kline: An Introduction

On View: October 5 – November 3, 2012
Reception: Friday, October 5, 6 – 8pm

Douglas Hyland, Director of the New Britain Museum of Art in New Britain Connecticut where Martin Kline recently had a major mid-career retrospective, writes, “Because his work is lyrically abstract, critics and art historians have commented consistently on the romantic sensibilities Martin’s paintings and sculptures evoke.  He blends aspects of the beautiful with the sublime.  His vision boasts the remarkable qualities of originality and consistency so that all of his works have a distinctive cohesive quality yet each explores a different theme and is the result of different influences. . . . Almost all have an organic quality which tethers them to the tradition of landscape painting.  But, instead of a panoramic display, Kline concentrates on a slice of nature magnified and thus examined intensely.  His beguiling and seductive creations engage us aesthetically but also intellectually because of the questions they evoke with regards to man’s role with nature.”